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Additionally, all sorts of phones use tantalum capacitors, which are mostly made from coltan, mined in the Congo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan#Use_and_demand



That link says 13% of the world's tantalum comes from the Congo, meaning a lot of it doesn't come from there ("Congolese coltan is globally speaking only a minor source of tantalum"). 100% of the world's .ly domain supply comes from Libya.

WP also mentions that Sony, for instance, stopped sourcing tantalum from the Congo. On the other hand, WP says Sony's claim is "inconceivable", citing a web page that no longer exists.


2008 - U.S. aims to boost Libya trade, trim deficit http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/10/06/us-libya-usa-idUST...

Libya are the bad guys this week. We were dealing with Libya in the Billions based on that article. Suddenly $75.00 for a domain name has become a moral hazard.


The billions in trade were a moral hazard too, just not one you so on the news quite so often.




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